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EPT Disclosure

19th Nov 2008 10:37

RNS Number : 4679I

Credit Suisse Equities (Australia)

19 November 2008

FORM 38.5 (b)

DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS

WITHOUT RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS, OR WITH RI STATUS

BUT NOT DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

(Rule 38.5(b) of the Takeover Code)

1. KEY INFORMATION

Name of exempt principal trader	Credit Suisse Equities (Australia) Limited
Company dealt in	BHP Billiton Limited
Class of relevant security to which the dealings being disclosed relate (Note 1)	Ordinary Shares
Date of dealing	18-11-2008

2. INTERESTS, SHORT POSITIONS AND RIGHTS TO SUBSCRIBE

(a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of relevant security dealt in (Note 2)

	Long		Short
	Number	(%)	Number	(%)
(1) Relevant securities			11407637	0.340
(2) Derivatives (other than options)
(3) Options and agreements to purchase/sell
Total			11407637	0.340

(b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company, other than the class dealt in (Note 2)

Class Of Relevant Security : Ordinary Shares	Long	Short
(1) Relevant Securities
(2) Derivatives (other than options)
(3) Options and agreements to purchasesell
Total

Class of relevant security:	Details

3. DEALINGS (Note 3)

(a) Purchases and sales

Purchase/sale	Number of securities	Price per unit (Note 4)
Purchase	10,000	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.20
Purchase	25	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.20
Purchase	9,000	24.20
Purchase	7,808	24.20
Purchase	2,000	24.20
Purchase	500	24.20
Purchase	1,367	24.20
Purchase	2,500	24.20
Purchase	3,000	24.20
Purchase	500	24.20
Purchase	500	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.20
Purchase	520	24.20
Purchase	530	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.20
Purchase	2,636	24.20
Purchase	46,789	24.20
Purchase	40,604	24.20
Purchase	16,464	24.20
Purchase	1,000	24.40
Purchase	10,000	24.40
Purchase	892	24.40
Purchase	985	24.40
Purchase	3,500	24.40
Purchase	5,000	24.40
Purchase	9,000	24.40
Purchase	500	24.40
Purchase	2,500	24.40
Purchase	6,000	24.40
Purchase	3,000	24.40
Purchase	1,000	24.40
Purchase	84	24.40
Purchase	10,000	24.40
Purchase	876	24.40
Purchase	1,000	24.40
Purchase	882	24.40
Purchase	1,842	24.40
Purchase	2,342	24.40
Purchase	1,305	24.40
Purchase	1,698	24.40
Purchase	1,298	24.40
Purchase	1,060	24.40
Purchase	10,000	24.40
Purchase	104	24.40
Purchase	1,040	24.40
Purchase	1,788	24.40
Purchase	110	24.40
Purchase	1,000	24.40
Purchase	100	24.40
Purchase	28	24.40
Purchase	3	24.40
Purchase	6	24.40
Purchase	1	24.40
Purchase	59	24.40
Purchase	3	24.40
Purchase	205	24.40
Purchase	79	24.39
Purchase	2	24.39
Purchase	34	24.39
Purchase	2,154	24.39
Purchase	142	24.38
Purchase	156	24.38
Purchase	615	24.38
Purchase	109	24.38
Purchase	10	24.38
Purchase	100	24.38
Purchase	95	24.38
Purchase	44	24.37
Purchase	1,000	24.37
Purchase	124	24.37
Purchase	665	24.37
Purchase	100	24.35
Purchase	685	24.35
Purchase	1,661	24.35
Purchase	1	24.35
Purchase	5,000	24.35
Purchase	836	24.35
Purchase	1,000	24.35
Purchase	1,000	24.35
Purchase	4,085	24.35
Purchase	1,000	24.35
Purchase	1,000	24.35
Purchase	5,000	24.35
Purchase	500	24.35
Purchase	2,194	24.35
Purchase	10,500	24.35
Purchase	236	24.35
Purchase	5,000	24.35
Purchase	5,000	24.35
Purchase	1,000	24.35
Purchase	21,000	24.35
Purchase	2,070	24.35
Purchase	4,905	24.35
Purchase	895	24.35
Purchase	878	24.35
Purchase	1,928	24.35
Purchase	4,116	24.35
Purchase	250	24.35
Purchase	153	24.35
Purchase	500	24.35
Purchase	276	24.35
Purchase	18	24.35
Purchase	100	24.35
Purchase	8,625	24.35
Purchase	200	24.30
Purchase	520	24.30
Purchase	4,117	24.30
Purchase	3,000	24.30
Purchase	1,077	24.30
Purchase	2,735	24.30
Purchase	205	24.30
Purchase	1,003	24.30
Purchase	580	24.30
Purchase	442	24.30
Purchase	2,261	24.30
Purchase	5,000	24.30
Purchase	1,953	24.30
Purchase	500	24.30
Purchase	5,000	24.30
Purchase	1,000	24.30
Purchase	266	24.30
Purchase	13,916	24.30
Purchase	300	24.30
Purchase	2,000	24.30
Purchase	1	24.28
Purchase	42	24.27
Purchase	1,878	24.23
Purchase	3,000	24.20
Purchase	6,000	24.20
Purchase	6	24.20
Purchase	4,000	24.20
Purchase	4,878	24.20
Purchase	748	24.13
Purchase	210	24.13
Purchase	42	24.13
Purchase	384	24.23
Purchase	810	24.23
Purchase	1	24.23
Purchase	805	24.23
Purchase	2,000	24.58
Purchase	1,336	24.62
Purchase	5,000	24.62
Purchase	5,000	24.62
Purchase	148	24.62
Purchase	47	24.62
Purchase	4	24.62
Purchase	182	24.62
Purchase	3,272	24.62
Purchase	11	24.61
Purchase	7,028	24.70
Purchase	2,107	24.70
Purchase	1,000	24.70
Purchase	376	24.70
Purchase	94	24.70
Purchase	10,000	24.70
Purchase	100	24.70
Purchase	1,000	24.70
Purchase	236	24.70
Purchase	4,500	24.70
Purchase	22	24.70
Purchase	6	24.70
Purchase	219	24.70
Purchase	400	24.70
Purchase	1,000	24.70
Purchase	62	24.69
Purchase	2,323	24.69
Purchase	175	24.69
Purchase	1	24.68
Purchase	100	24.66
Purchase	135	24.66
Purchase	94	24.66
Purchase	77	24.65
Purchase	2,000	24.65
Purchase	141	24.65
Purchase	7,731	24.65
Purchase	94	24.65
Purchase	8,979	24.65
Purchase	843	24.96
Purchase	87	24.96
Purchase	70	24.95
Purchase	20	25.04
Purchase	154	25.04
Purchase	15	25.04
Purchase	2,273	25.04
Purchase	3,056	25.04
Purchase	2,500	25.04
Purchase	25	25.04
Purchase	146	25.04
Purchase	73	25.04
Purchase	2,000	25.04
Purchase	900	25.04
Purchase	10,000	25.04
Purchase	1,000	25.04
Purchase	73	25.04
Purchase	73	25.04
Purchase	599	25.04
Purchase	73	25.04
Purchase	1,000	25.04
Purchase	3,482	25.04
Purchase	1,092	25.14
Purchase	198	25.20
Purchase	2,500	25.20
Purchase	1,500	25.20
Purchase	802	25.20
Purchase	9,984	25.20
Purchase	27	25.20
Purchase	73	25.20
Purchase	1,452	25.20
Purchase	19	25.20
Purchase	8	25.20
Purchase	73	25.20
Purchase	1,500	25.20
Purchase	1,167	25.20
Purchase	697	25.20
Purchase	3,908	25.14
Purchase	164	25.15
Purchase	72	25.15
Purchase	162	25.15
Purchase	2,538	25.15
Purchase	1,500	25.14
Purchase	73	25.14
Purchase	491	25.14
Purchase	1,331	25.13
Purchase	700	25.13
Purchase	700	25.13
Purchase	201	25.13
Purchase	800	25.13
Purchase	1,268	25.13
Purchase	1,043	25.19
Purchase	131	25.19
Purchase	526	25.19
Purchase	1,000	25.19
Purchase	2,300	25.19
Purchase	2,756	25.18
Purchase	638	25.18
Purchase	322	25.18
Purchase	90	25.18
Purchase	194	25.18
Purchase	1,000	25.18
Purchase	2,000	25.20
Purchase	1,000	25.26
Purchase	324	25.00
Purchase	1,000	25.00
Purchase	319	25.00
Purchase	1,000	25.00
Purchase	700	25.00
Purchase	10,000	25.00
Purchase	10,000	25.00
Purchase	2,000	25.00
Purchase	503	25.00
Purchase	1	25.00
Purchase	999	25.00
Purchase	2,736	25.00
Purchase	2,479	25.00
Purchase	8,000	25.00
Purchase	15,000	25.00
Purchase	188	25.00
Purchase	3,453	25.00
Purchase	400	25.00
Purchase	41,116	25.00
Purchase	1,972	25.00
Purchase	42,752	25.00
Purchase	219	25.00
Purchase	20,000	25.00
Purchase	150	25.00
Purchase	2,500	25.00
Purchase	701	25.00
Purchase	10,000	25.00
Purchase	500	25.00
Purchase	250	25.00
Purchase	500	25.00
Purchase	82	25.00
Purchase	500	25.00
Purchase	5,000	25.00
Purchase	400	25.00
Purchase	2,000	25.00
Purchase	300	25.00
Purchase	100	25.00
Purchase	100	25.00
Purchase	30	25.00
Purchase	50	25.00
Purchase	50	25.00
Purchase	1,417	24.99
Purchase	73	24.99
Purchase	136	24.99
Purchase	10,000	24.99
Purchase	21	24.90
Purchase	292	24.90
Purchase	657	24.90
Purchase	900	24.90
Purchase	200	24.90
Purchase	3,000	24.90
Purchase	1,080	24.90
Purchase	1,000	24.90
Purchase	2,000	24.90
Purchase	105	24.90
Purchase	1,500	24.90
Purchase	320	24.88
Purchase	13	24.88
Purchase	2,000	24.88
Purchase	10,000	24.87
Purchase	1,600	24.87
Purchase	100	24.86
Purchase	10,000	24.86
Purchase	100	24.86
Purchase	73	24.85
Purchase	2,895	24.85
Purchase	73	24.84
Purchase	5,385	24.84
Purchase	2,500	24.79
Purchase	2,834	24.75
Purchase	7,000	24.75
Purchase	73	24.75
Purchase	5,000	24.75
Purchase	10,000	24.75
Purchase	6,956	24.75
Purchase	4,000	24.75
Purchase	80,200	23.95
Purchase	650,000	24.23
Purchase	1,180,000	25.46
Sale	-100,000	24.42
Sale	-5,896	24.20
Sale	-32,745	24.20
Sale	-400	24.20
Sale	-1,938	24.20
Sale	-1,512	24.20
Sale	-43	24.20
Sale	-4,193	24.20
Sale	-35,453	24.20
Sale	-33,885	24.20
Sale	-7,205	24.20
Sale	-2,724	24.02
Sale	-2	24.02
Sale	-255	24.02
Sale	-2,981	24.03
Sale	-200	24.03
Sale	-100	24.03
Sale	-20	24.03
Sale	-4,025	24.01
Sale	-1,000	24.01
Sale	-1	24.01
Sale	-1	24.01
Sale	-283	24.01
Sale	-125	24.03
Sale	-315	24.03
Sale	-200	24.03
Sale	-143	24.03
Sale	-125	24.02
Sale	-5,311	24.02
Sale	-282	24.02
Sale	-1,028	24.06
Sale	-2,849	24.06
Sale	-153	24.05
Sale	-400	24.05
Sale	-500	24.05
Sale	-500	24.05
Sale	-100	24.05
Sale	-300	24.05
Sale	-50	24.05
Sale	-300	24.05
Sale	-350	24.05
Sale	-300	24.05
Sale	-21	24.05
Sale	-500	24.05
Sale	-75	24.05
Sale	-500	24.05
Sale	-100	24.05
Sale	-40	24.05
Sale	-300	24.05
Sale	-4	24.05
Sale	-48	24.07
Sale	-100	24.07
Sale	-6	24.07
Sale	-4,314	24.07
Sale	-433	24.07
Sale	-2	24.07
Sale	-407	24.07
Sale	-25	24.09
Sale	-12	24.09
Sale	-16	24.09
Sale	-680	24.09
Sale	-1	24.09
Sale	-247	24.09
Sale	-43	24.09
Sale	-1,187	24.54
Sale	-2,747	24.54
Sale	-150	24.55
Sale	-4,146	24.57
Sale	-755	24.57
Sale	-2,882	24.53
Sale	-1,194	24.53
Sale	-8	24.53
Sale	-1,290	24.52
Sale	-243	24.52
Sale	-2,960	24.52
Sale	-4,084	24.53
Sale	-1,489	24.62
Sale	-2,000	24.72
Sale	-2,229	24.72
Sale	-50	24.66
Sale	-647	24.66
Sale	-200	24.66
Sale	-200	24.66
Sale	-84	24.66
Sale	-25	24.66
Sale	-1,000	24.66
Sale	-250	24.66
Sale	-1,678	24.66
Sale	-1,176	24.65
Sale	-6	24.65
Sale	-26	24.65
Sale	-196	24.65
Sale	-250	24.65
Sale	-100	24.65
Sale	-500	24.65
Sale	-2,000	24.65
Sale	-300	24.65
Sale	-400	24.65
Sale	-347	24.70
Sale	-1,000	24.70
Sale	-2,017	24.70
Sale	-1,537	24.70
Sale	-3,554	24.71
Sale	-530	24.71
Sale	-5,000	24.74
Sale	-200	24.74
Sale	-2,100	24.74
Sale	-4,084	24.76
Sale	-2,539	24.80
Sale	-1,000	24.80
Sale	-545	24.80
Sale	-1,708	24.80
Sale	-2,376	24.80

TOTAL BUYS:2731014

TOTAL SELLS:321056

(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options)

Product name, e.g. CFD	Long/short (Note 5)	Number of securities (Note 6)	Price per unit (Note 4)

(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying

Product name,e.g. call option	Writing, selling, purchasing, varying etc.	Number of securities to which the option relates (Note 6)	Exercise price	Type, e.g. American, European etc.	Expiry date	Option money paid/received per unit (Note 4)

(ii) Exercising

Product name, e.g. call option	Number of securities	Exercise price per unit (Note 4)

(d) Other dealings (including new securities) (Note 3)

Nature of transaction (Note 7)	Details	Price per unit (if applicable) (Note 4)

4. OTHER INFORMATION

Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives

Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the person disclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should be stated.

Is a Supplemental Form 38.5(b) attached? (Note 8) No

Date of disclosure	19-11-2008
Contact name	Carolyn Collins; Simon Crawley
Telephone number	44 20 7888 0241
Name of offeree/offeror with which connected	Rio Tinto Plc
Nature of connection (Note 9)	ADVISOR

Notes

The Notes on Form 38.5(b) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END

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